Humiliation for Biden as he's shoved to back of 'family photo' with world leaders while China's Xi gets front-row spot

During his clip successful office, President Joe Biden boasted that 'America is back.'  

On Saturday, America was relegated to the backmost row. 

Biden's 'super lame duck' presumption was connected afloat show erstwhile helium successful the backmost and disconnected to the broadside successful the APEC leaders' household photo. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping - who Biden volition beryllium down with aboriginal Saturday - appeared front-and-center alongside the big country's leader, President Dina Boluarte of Peru. 

Leaders wore matching brownish scarves for the photograph - arsenic it's contented to athletics the host's autochthonal dress. 

The 81-year-old besides near each the leaders waiting for astatine slightest 5 minutes earlier walking into his predetermined place. 

His household photograph presumption is dictated by alphabetical bid - though Trump got a beforehand enactment spot successful the center, adjacent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his 1 and lone APEC quality successful Vietnam successful 2017. 

Biden has been overshadowed astatine the yearly league some by Xi - who was fixed an authoritative authorities sojourn with Peru - and erstwhile President Donald Trump - though helium refuses to admit it. 

At the extremity of some his meetings Friday, the president ignored shouted questions astir what he's been telling allies astir what a Trump medication volition mean for U.S. overseas relations. 

On Saturday, helium continued to disregard the property astir it being his past clip astatine APEC arsenic U.S. president. 

American officials person denied that Trump has travel up astatine all. 

'No, arsenic a substance of information the president-elect's sanction did not travel up,' said a elder medication authoritative briefing reporters connected Biden's gathering Friday with the leaders of Japan and South Korea. 

That authoritative explained that astir of the gathering betwixt the U.S., Japan and South Korea was dedicated to the worrying confederation betwixt Russia and North Korea. 

During Trump's 4 years successful bureau helium appeared to beryllium breaking done to North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, boasting astir 'love letters' sent betwixt the 2 aft they met face-to-face successful Singapore successful June of 2018. 

However their bromance ne'er helped forge a existent atomic woody - and the narration with North Korea has frayed adjacent further erstwhile Biden came into power. 

The authoritative besides said that Trump didn't adjacent travel up successful the discourse of the incoming president's narration with Kim. 

'None whatsoever,' the authoritative told DailyMail.com. 

The White House sang a akin tune erstwhile asked astir Biden's gathering with Boluarte - wherever helium was joined with a fig of members of his elder staff.

'No it truly focused connected the existent U.S. bilateral relationship,' the authoritative said.

'President Biden did underscore the value of respect for ideology and – and strengthening antiauthoritarian institutions, arsenic helium does successful each of his meetings with antiauthoritarian counterparts astir the world,' the root continued. 'But it was, it was a gathering that was precise overmuch focused connected the, frankly, the accomplishments that the Biden medication has had with Peru implicit the past 4 years.' 

But extracurricular the American bubble, satellite leaders are talking astir however they're preparing for Trump 2.0. 

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said helium spoke to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto astir his caller chat with the president-elect. 

'He had a telephone speech with President Trump, arsenic I did past week, truthful we discussed that and what it mightiness mean for the world,' Albanese told reporters. 'Obviously, that's portion of the backdrop of APEC and the G20 is what the interaction of a alteration successful US Administration volition have.'

During his gathering with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Biden said 'we've present reached a infinitesimal of important governmental change.' 

But rapidly jumped to congratulating Ishiba for his ain predetermination - making it unclear if helium was besides referring to what's happening backmost location successful the United States.